Word: carlos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks before its opener last fall, the Metropolitan Opera found itself in a jam. Boris Christoff, the Bulgarian basso who was scheduled to sing King Philip in the opening-night Don Carlo, had been turned down for a visa. Met Manager Rudolf Bing had to gamble, and gamble fast. He staked his show on a 28-year-old singer named Cesare Siepi, who was almost unknown outside Italy. Handsome young Basso Siepi has turned out to be one of the best bets any opera manager ever made...
...golden basso cantante (a lyric bass rather than a growler) with a natural authority onstage, Siepi won himself an opening-night ovation as the dignified king in Don Carlo. Then, a month later, he shed the dignity like a shirt, became an inspired and pompous fool as Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville. He turned next to Mephistopheles in Faust, sang and acted with his customary conviction...
Vatican City unfurled its gold and white state banners in celebration of Pope Pius Xd's 75th birthday and the twelfth anniversary of his election to the papacy. After the day's work was over, there was a family visit with his three nephews, Carlo, Marcantonio and Giulio Pacelli...
...family moved from Oklahoma to Los Angeles when Maria was nine, so that the girls could continue their studies. Maria became a favorite pupil of Bronislava Nijinska, sister of Vaslav Nijinsky. In 1942 she moved East, joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. There she was spotted by Choreographer George Balanchine, who began casting her in his ballets, later married her. When he and Lincoln Kinstein organized the City Center company in 1948, he brought Maria along as prima ballerina. Since then, with Russian-trained Balanchine to supply the polish, she has been shining more brightly each season...
...LONDON, Gian-Carlo Menotti got an opening-night ovation for The Consul, in contrast to the pandemonium of boos and bravos it raised at La Scala (TIME, Feb. 5). Nobody tried to drown out the singers with toy whistles or shouted "Down with America!" Said Menotti: "I still have friends in Britain...